There been few parcels ,this week at Winston towers .a great selection of books –
The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner & contributions to annuals and gift books by James Hogg
These were both sent to me by the lovely bookrambler ,Jannette edit the contribution book by James Hogg was a poet and novelist and one of Scotland’s treasures ,I have only read a slim volume of his works ,and am looking forward to these a true classic scotts writer .
Young Hitler by Claus Hant
This is a non fiction novel by a german scriptwriter Claus Hant ,who has work on this over a number of years ,whilst working on a hugely successful tv show der bulle am Tolz (the bull from bad Tolz ) a comic police show .I m sure this book is going to cause some controversy ,but Hant says he wants to discover what made Hitler the monster he became .
The queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin
A debut novel set in Missippi in the early sixties it involves race secrets growing up in the segregated era ,this partly comes from Rose’s own experience as a child growing up in the sixties .
Beiruit39-
This book is part of a project from hay festival and Beirut ,the project involved writers from all over the arab world submit work ,they only had to be under 40 ,this project follows the successful bogota39 project which help launch the career of Junnot Diaz among others .link to the hay page –beirut39
I have the James Hogg book at home. I swapped it on readitswapit a few months ago and it arrived with a lovely note from the person who sent me it saying that she lived in Edinburgh (where it’s set) and she had walked the streets that the action takes place in and it really added to the book. It made me really want to go back. I must get round to reading it soon actually.
I love the sound of Beirut 39 too!
Nice haul, Stu!
yes been a good week ,the beirut book looks great i ve started it already .thats nice to know it came from the edinburgh ,lovely city